I can see 🌰︎ American chestnut Castanea dentata

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If your specimen has leaves that are:	and has nuts that are:	then you have:

smaller than ↓ below (13–20 cm) (5–8 in), with ordinarily-long and distinct ▲▲ teeth	not flattened on one side, and half the size as ↓ below	lookalike Allegheny chinquapin Castanea pumila.
larger than ↑ above (15–25 cm) (6–10 in), with very long and distinct ▲▲ teeth	flattened on one side, and twice the size as ↑ above	this plant, please continue below …

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Part of 🌰︎ chestnut / chinkapin genus Castanea in beech / oak family Fagaceae in bayberry / beech / birch / oak / walnut order Fagales.

Native to eastern 🇺🇸 USA and very-southern 🇨🇦 Canada. 🗺 Map by county (🇺🇸 USA-48) (color key), 🗺 map (North America, Central America), 🗺 map (eastern 🇺🇸 USA).

Formerly abundant and a major component of the Eastern hardwood forest, this tree is almost extinct in the wild, having been killed by a bark fungal disease chestnut blight Cryphonectria parasitica.

Although I see that my local Conservation District is selling bare-root trees of this species, but grown from in-state survivors of the blight, known to be resistant. Worth a try, to resurrect this amazing piece of Americana!

The disease also impacts (not quite as hard) this tree's closely-related (even shares most of its home range) sister-species Allegheny chinquapin Castanea pumila.

Uses by native peoples
(Ethnobotany database)

Castanea hosts caterpillars of 129 species
of butterflies and moths, in some areas.

Learn more about 🌰︎ American chestnut Castanea dentata

🔍︎ 🔍︎ images Discover Life Encyclopedia of Life Michigan Flora (Minnesota) Wild Flower Garden Missouri Botanical Garden Native Plant Trust Flora of North America NRCS PLANTS db Wikipedia

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🏠︎ 🌳︎ broadleaves, ╟ alternate, 🍂︎ simple non-lobed ▲▲ toothed 🌳︎🍃︎ broadleaf branches, ╟ alternate, list of attributes, no catkins thorns pods, terminal buds w/2 scales

Allegheny chinquapin Castanea pumila